Analysis: Liszt- Un Sospiro

[@davidfu4742]

Something I just realized about the melody and why it's so pretty is that it outlines the Db major pentatonic scale. That's so cool! I always wondered why sounded like it could've been written by Debussy!

[@davisatdavis1]

Omg I never noticed that, nice catch!

[@composer7325]

David, I have spent years studying your brilliant analyses and I keep returning to them.I always feel I'm in paradise while studying your work.Thank you again,Peter.

[@lolmanittakesguts]

My favourite piano piece of all time, thanks for providing more insight into this beautiful piece.

[@lesmizzle]

@ measure 43 the pianist in the recording is playing a G# in the bass instead of F# at the D major chord. Perhaps a mistake, but it is echoed later when transposed to Db (this time the score also holds the pedal).

[@DavidBennettThomas]

Good catch! In this video the F# is played: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqKQqmyBfNamqcU

[@aristotletesticles8347]

I just finished Piston's Harmony and Fux' book, so I still have a way to go. But these videos are very inspiring!

[@1827641]

Great! Could you do an analysis of Chopin's "aeolian harp" étude?

[@fatimacanche9081]

Arrau sigue siendo el mejor despues de fallecido hace muchos años

[@seungmin007]

May I find this sheet? Gooood analysis for amatuer.

[@monsieurbrochant7528]

Thank you! That'll come very useful!

[@MDR0]

Hey man, I love your videos and I usually watch these to study at night. Just a suggestion: It'll be very nice of you if you can invert the colours of the text and bg (black paper with white text) so I don't get blasted with light. Thank you.

[@composer7325]

Another master class .Thank you.Excellent

[@kieran48]

Thanks for doing this. Could you provide a little context into the augmented chord in measure 20?

[@absinthesizer]

Hi, Mr. Thomas, have you read Richard Cohn's "Audacious Euphony"? It's a revelatory in-depth study of major third relationships in Romantic music.

[@DavidBennettThomas]

No, but sounds awesome! Thanks for the rec!

[@pompasduris]

At 3:09, why is that modulation from F major down to C-sharp minor called a third? Isn't that a fourth? I'm confused.

[@C720L]

C sharp is down a third from f

[@linrz1029]

Down a diminished fourth, which is equivalent to a major third in 12edo. Since it is not “resolved” as composers often do to dissonant intervals, it is musically a third rather than a fourth.

[@TheCanadianSkillerHD]

fantastic

[@murry66tmailcom]

great video! keep them coming! Thanks!

[@pompasduris]

What does the symbol Ger+6 mean?

[@WowFan991]

Is a big part of the reason this "works" the bass notes (like G#7/F#)? If so, should one try to work out the individual voicings and how they blend into each other rather than learn about chord functions (although that must be important too)? I'm not sure that I will be able to incorporate any of this into my playing

[@ich-nuta]

Putting the seventh of a chord in the bass and then resolving it a half step down is a popular "move" in harmony. Especially effective if you begin with a "normal" triad, with the root in the bass, then you move the bass a whole step lower (to become the 7th) and you now have a voicing like you referred to.

[@restoreamericanvalues3380]

Shades of the Parsifal theme, 25 years later....I /iv /IV /ii V7 /I

[@str3123]

thanks for this videos :)

[@nezkeys79]

Bar 36 who can actually play 11ths in the LH without spreading in 2022? I can't even play 10ths lol Rachmaninov Liszt? But they're not 2022

[@GUILLOM]

What does 2022 have to do with handspans? lol

[@nezkeys79]

@@GUILLOM don't even remember making this comment lol. I guess my thinking was that humans in their time had bigger handspans

[@GUILLOM]

@@nezkeys79 moment

[@KingstonCzajkowski]

@@nezkeys79 Keys were narrower

[@nezkeys79]

@@KingstonCzajkowski is that verified? ???